Huh… Kudos to Reginald as he is looking her in the eye. Castella, however…. general downward glance. Next stop, Embarrassment Station! Get off here kids, the only stops after are in Compromising Central.

She appears to do a sort of “Hulk Mode” thing lately when she feels threatened, surprised, whatever. Possibly because she’s realized vaporizing continents is not an appropriate response for regular threats. Muscles are a pretty socially acceptable way of defending yourself, even in front of the normal folk. Or perhaps she’s just drawn that way in moments of stress to underscore her growing power, who knows really except the author? Either one does pretty much make sense though. (Well, as far as anything makes real world sense in Waspi anyway once the magic comes out to play.)

She mentioned Cricket, so my two thoughts on this are either she grabbed the wrong potion, like the one that transformed Digit, or this is actually one of Cricket’s Honor guard that was supposed to be watching the Blackthorn, and that potion had an unusual side effect because of Fea.

And here is where mom come walking in saying ” honey I’m home early I was worried about you being… a- lone…. WHO THE HELL IS THE NAKED HUNKIE BOY IN YOUR BEDROOM YOU”ER NAKED WITH!!!!! ” DUN- DUN- DUN!!!

Also why is it girls always cover their breasts at times like this… when their other lady parts would be a much better choice for covering up. or an arm across the breasts and a hand over the south pole.

Well, for the most part, if they (Females) are standing, a whole lot of the ‘equipment’ isn’t all that visible.
Not like with most Males where standing reveals the ‘package’.

Breasts, otoh, are very much ‘look-at-me!’, esp with the differences in coloring drawing the attention, So, they’d need covering as a priority (to shield things from view) where as the under-bits are just that; Under.

Still, I see Females covering both, as the situation calls for it.
I reference a film called the ‘the Proposal’ w/ Sandra Bullock as a readily available example.

Yes, exactly. She mentions “I hope you dont mind if I get into my PJ’s…” and while running her introspective monologue (thinking both that the Butterfly cant participate in a dialog* & can understand her nonetheless) she starts doffing stuff thinking he’s not a humanoid and therefore safe-ish to disrobe in front of.

This reminds me of Sailor Moon Super S, when Chibi-usa had Pegasus (who was trapped in a snow globe) in her bedroom, and was treating him like a semi-sentient pet. There was a scene where she does exactly what pickle does here, whips her top off changing for sleep right in front of him. The difference there is that in Sailor Moon it was played for Dramatic Irony – the audience saw Pegasus reaction and knew that he was a functioning adult personality but Chibi-usa was still treating him like a pet.
Whereas here, Reginald is now revealed to be more than the pet that Pickle thought he was mere moments ago, and that fact is being revealed to her in the most stark way possible. Thus giving us a fantastic moment of cartoon anticipation as we wait for the explosion – verbal, emotional, or even literal – in tomorrows installment. Unless we get a scene change, in which case I WILL cry.